Economic History of Developing Regions

2012 - 2025

Current editor(s): Alex Klein and Alfonso Herranz-Loncan

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Volume 40, issue 3, 2025

The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market pp. 173-201

Jessica Vechbanyongratana

The United Kingdom, the Sterling Area operations, and reserve management in Nigeria: The politics of the Sterling Guarantee Agreement (1931–1979) pp. 202-228

Abel Ezeoha, Emmanuel Onah and Chibuike Uche

The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration pp. 229-258

Edward Kosack and Kristina Sargent

Towards monetary autonomy in the French Union? The 1949 reform in French Somaliland and the façade of sovereignty pp. 259-278

Moustapha Aman

Volume 40, issue 2, 2025

New voices on Nigerian economic history: Introduction to the special issue pp. 99-111

Gerardo Serra and Olutayo C. Adesina

Economic ideas and state policies in Benin, c. 1440–1897 pp. 112-125

Idahosa Osagie Ojo

The food economy of colonial Igalaland, 1900–1960 pp. 126-142

Ugbede Joseph Ineke

From marginalization to tokenism: The political economy of industrialization in Gombe, North East Nigeria, 1963–2013 pp. 143-156

Misbahu Saidu

Market associations and the political economy of exclusion: A gender analysis of two markets in Plateau State, 1976–2022 pp. 157-172

Patience Mamie Kolade

Volume 40, issue 1, 2025

Call for Applications: Editor/Assistant Editor – Economic History of Developing Regions pp. ii-ii

The Editors

The uneven expansion of education in developing regions: A historical perspective pp. 1-14

Pau Insa-Sánchez and Julio Martinez-Galarraga

Age heaping based numeracy estimates in African regions, 1950–1999: New methodological advances and results pp. 15-48

Sarah Ferber and Joerg Baten

Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation pp. 49-79

Germán Tabares-Pozos, Irina España-Eljaiek and Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora

Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic pp. 80-97

Alpay Filiztekin

Volume 39, issue 3, 2024

Social interactions and contract enforcement in the postcolonial Arab world. Evidence from the industrial elite of Morocco, 1956–1982 pp. 219-250

Romain Ferrali and Javier Mejia

Feeding African cities: Hinterland suitability and urban growth in twentieth-century sub-Saharan Africa pp. 251-278

Tanik Joshipura

The Siamese sugar trade during the first half of the nineteenth century: Trade pattern, business operations and state policies pp. 279-306

Apicha Chutipongpisit

A new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925–2015 pp. 307-336

Júlia R. Walter and Thomas Kang

Volume 39, issue 2, 2024

Colonial agricultural estates and rural development in twentieth-century Mexico pp. 105-144

Luz Marina Arias and Diana Flores-Peregrina

Using Hong Kong as a springboard: China’s indirect exports via Hong Kong in the 1950s pp. 145-168

Kei Uenishi

Profits and inequality during an export boom. Evidence from tax records in Lima, Peru pp. 169-195

Luis Zegarra

Mild Arabica coffee trade at a time of market regulation pp. 196-217

Andrea Montero-Mora and Marc Badia-Miró

Volume 39, issue 1, 2024

The colonial gap: An analysis of income distribution in the Port of Dakar, 1911–1940 pp. 1-27

Daniel Castillo Hidalgo

The economic response of the Israeli government to a rapid influx of immigrants by the founding of the state, 1948–1953: Expansionary fiscal policy and rationing pp. 28-48

Andrew Schein

The sins of the church: The long-term impacts of Christian missionary praxis on HIV and sexual behaviour in Zambia pp. 49-81

Michael Chanda Chiseni

Child labour, Africa’s colonial system, and coercion: The case of the Portuguese colonies, 1870–1975 pp. 82-104

Pedro Goulart

Volume 38, issue 3, 2023

The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900–55 pp. 215-255

Arlinde C.E. Vrooman

The emergence of Brazil as a major world sugar and ethanol producer pp. 256-280

Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna

Political economy of development in the Arab republics: The state and socio-economic coalitions pp. 281-304

Shimaa Hatab

Like the swing of the pendulum: The history of government-sponsored rural settlements in São Paulo, Brazil (1820s–1920s) pp. 305-334

Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

Top incomes and the ruling class in Latin American history. Some theoretical and methodological challenges pp. 335-352

Javier Rodríguez Weber

Volume 38, issue 2, 2023

Living standards of copper mine labour in Chile and the Central African Copperbelt compared, 1920s to 1960s pp. 117-150

Dácil Juif and Sergio Garrido

The development of the arid tropics: Lessons for economic history pp. 151-172

Tirthankar Roy

Manufacturing convergence in the Southern Cone: New evidence for the industrialization period pp. 173-197

Cecilia Lara

On Polish economic historiography in exile, 1945–1989 pp. 198-214

Damian Bębnowski

Volume 38, issue 1, 2023

Wealth inequality in interwar Poland pp. 1-40

Marcin Wroński

Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950: Can a comparison of historical trajectories help to understand underdevelopment? pp. 41-64

Stefania Galli, Dimitrios Theodoridis and Klas Rönnbäck

The political economy of development in Belize under the People’s United Party pp. 65-88

Jacob Ferrell and Joel Wainwright

Historical African ethnic class stratification systems and intergenerational transmission of education pp. 89-116

Patricia Funjika

Volume 37, issue 3, 2022

Market integration via entrepôt: Southeast Asia's rice trade, 1828–1870 pp. 201-226

Atsushi Kobayashi

Human capital in Chile: The development of numeracy during the last 250 years pp. 227-256

Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Javier Rivas, Ignacio Pérez and Juan Navarrete-Montalvo

The agricultural productivity gap: A global vision pp. 257-287

Ángel Luis González-Esteban and Elisa Botella-Rodríguez

Wealth inequality in colonial Hispanic-America: Montevideo in the late eighteenth century pp. 288-314

María Inés Moraes, Rebeca Riella, Carolina Vicario and Pablo Marmissolle

Historical Christian missions and African societies today: Perspectives from economic history pp. 315-332

Dozie Okoye

Volume 37, issue 2, 2022

Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization pp. 101-127

Toyomu Masaki

The missing boys: Understanding the unbalanced sex ratio in South Africa, 1894–2011 pp. 128-146

Francisco Marco-Gracia and Johan Fourie

Borrower income and loan rates in the credit market of Lima pp. 147-169

Luis Zegarra

Comparative labour productivity in British and Russian manufacturing, circa 1908 pp. 170-200

Nikita Lychakov, Dmitrii Saprykin and Nadia Vanteeva

Volume 37, issue 1, 2022

Precedents of mass migration: Policies, occupations, and the sorting of foreigners in São Paulo, Brazil (1872) pp. 1-26

Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza

The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 27-49

Bastian Becker

Factor endowments, vent for surplus and involutionary process in rural developing economies pp. 50-74

Montserrat López Jerez

How accurate are the prices in the British colonial Blue Books? pp. 75-99

Tom Westland